254 INDEX. 



Diet, of a thin sparing kind, remarkable among quadrupeds 

 as well as the human species, to produce hair, iii. 73. 



Digester, an instrument : meat and bones put into it, dissolv- 

 ed into a jelly in six or eight minutes, i. 263. 



Digestion, these organs in birds are in a manner reversed, iv. 

 13. Not perfect in birds that live upon mice, lizards, or 

 such like food, 117. Performed by some unknown princi- 

 ple in the stomach, acting in a manner different from all 

 kinds of artificial maceration : this animal power lodged in 

 the maw of fishes, v. 11. 



Disorders, infectious, propagated by the effluvia from diseased 

 bodies, i. 274-. Most of those incident to mankind, says 

 Bacon, arise from the changes of the atmosphere, v. 19. 

 Fishes have their disorders, 153. 



Diver (the great northern), a bird of the smaller tribe of the 

 penguin kind : the grey speckled diver, the scarlet-throated 

 diver, iv. 396. 



Divers known to descend from twenty to thirty fathom : of 

 all those who have brought information from the bottom of 

 the deep, Nicolo Pesce the most celebrated: account of 

 his performances by Kircher, i. 251. Some known to con- 

 tinue three quarters of an hour under water without breath- 

 ing ; they usually die consumptive : manner of fishing for 

 pearls, v. 245. 



Dodo, its description : among birds, as the sloth among quad- 

 rupeds, an unresisting animal, equally incapable of flight or 

 defence : native of the Isle of France : the Dutch first dis- 

 covered and called it the nauseous bird : travellers deem 

 its flesh good and wholesome : it is easily taken : three or 

 four dodos enough to dine a hundred men : whether the 

 dodo be the same bird with that described under the name 

 of the bird of Nazareth remains uncertain, iv. 61. 



Doe, the female of the deer kind, ii. 329. 



Dogs, always running with their noses to the ground, sup- 

 posed of old the first that felt infection, i. 272. No other 

 animal of the carnivorous kind will make a voluntary attack 

 but with the odds on their side, ii. 153. The Arabian 

 horses outrun them, 176- In the dog kind the chief power 

 lies in the under jaw, ii. 388. In Syria, remarkable for the 

 fine glossy length and softness of their hair, 398. In tropi- 

 cal climates lose the delicacy of their scent, and why : the 

 lion, tiger, panther, and ounce, all natural enemies to the 

 dog, 438. Dog kind not so solitary as those of the cat, iii. 

 2. Their proper prey are animals unfitted for climbing : 

 they can live for some time upon fruits and vegetables, 3. 

 Description of the dog : knows a beggar by his clothes, by 

 his voice, or his gestures, and forbids his approach, 3. The 

 dog most susceptible of change in its form, 8. All dogs are 

 of one kind : which the original of all ; which the savage 



